Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 2 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 3 | We set up experiments on purified lymphocytes in test tubes to see if nutrients available on one side of a filter would provoke lymphocytes on the other side to wriggle their way through the membrane in that direction . |
| 4 | Set up roadblocks on King Creole and Roustabout . |
| 5 | In Knin , residents set up barricades on all approach roads to prevent Croat police arriving to stop the referendum , and local reservists carrying firearms ( some stolen from the town 's police station ) patrolled the streets . |